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It played here plenty.

There's a reasonably in-depth interview from Martin with The Independent: Martin Freeman interview: The actor on hobbits, Cumbermania and his Nazi-hounding role in The Eichmann Show. Bits of it are on site after site across the interwebs, especially the bits about his dislike of Setlock (although he does finish, "Of course you want to be gracious with it. And I obviously very much appreciate, as do we all, the fact that people love it. But also, yeah, it doesn't make you doing your job any easier.") and that while he likes to be done and finished with jobs, Sherlock is an exception to that because it's intermittent and short. (Whew!) *** Also being repeated across the Net is a bit that I think came originally from The Irish Examiner, that "keeping up his East Coast accent was a tough challenge when filming The Eichmann Show." (Speaking as someone from New York, and going by the clips I saw, I think it may be a challenge he did not quite rise to.) (Possibly because there really, really isn't one East Coast accent to keep up.)

Again, these might be spoilers--or, as my source, DenOfGeek points out, it might just be Mark Gatiss and the director of the special, Douglas Mackinnon playing with us, but recent tweets by those two were quotations from "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle". (There's more in that article in the way of rumors and setlock.)

I don't know the Beverly Hillbillies song well enough to sing it either, that wouldn't surprise me. But to pretend she didn't know what it was, that's disingenuous.

RadioTimes has an article ("Martin Freeman makes TV history in first trailer for The Eichmann Show") and a trailer for The Eichmann Show: The Jewish News likewise has an article ("Martin Freeman stars in BBC Eichmann drama to mark Auschwitz liberation"), the same trailer, plus three additional clips/trailers: It looks like it will be fairly amazing, including genuine footage from the trial like that.

Yep! For Best Actor in a Leading Role. The Imitation Game picked up 8 nominations in all, including Best Film and Best Director. Good haul! (I think Michael Keaton will win, but it's a well-deserved "welcome to the A-list" nod. And anything can happen!)

I guessed Florida, but it was just a guess--I couldn't think of any mountains on the map there, that was my reasoning.

Also, the NYC PBS station aired The Music Man a few months ago. :)

I'm watching it now, very cute so far. (And Benedict is a very good sport.)

EOnline has a (short) post-Golden Globes video interview with Benedict; someone at HuffPo Canada apparently has a full-time job posting photos of Benedict; and People magazine has A Brief History of Cumberbombing.

WalesOnline has an article about The Eichmann Show, and Inquisitr has an interview with Martin about same.

I think she must have inseam pockets put into a lot of her dresses, because she always seems to have them, and it's so hard to find dresses made with them. So sensible! I love it, too.

I don't think they'd use time travel. Might be ghosts--ACD had stories with putative ghosts and vampires and the like--or delirium, or delving into a past mystery imaginatively...

Ah, well--not only did Benedict not win, but unless I missed something (possible), The Imitation Game didn't pick up any awards. But Sophie did indeed look very pretty!

Aaaaaand he photobombed Meryl Streep and Margaret Cho (in a sketch): Time Magazine already has the video on their website. :D

Just been watching the NBC Golden Globes preview show; when they snared Benedict they asked him about Turing and never got a chance to ask him about Sophie or the Cumberbaby--he started talking about Turing and ate up all his time and then some. Ha!

You beat me to it on the BAFTA nom, M. Darcy! (The Imitation Game picked up nine BAFTA nominations, including Benedict's Best Actor.)

From RadioTimes: Amanda Abbington: my daughter wants to be Mary Watson when she grows up. ("But Mummy, why can't I be an assassin, too?")

Heh! Well, he'll figure it out. He'll have to!

In non-Cumberbaby-related news, there's an article on CNET about Benedict; it seems to me to basically be a rehash of the WSJ interview, but I could be misremembering. Also, there is an interesting "featurette" of Morten Tyldum talking about directing "The Imitation Game" and working with Benedict:

Some more in the "sort of spoiler" vein: A tweet from BBC1: "Element-hairy, my dear Watson! Filming is now underway on the #Sherlock Special, coming to @BBCOne in 2015." Tweet includes a photo of a clapboard for the Special, with a scribbled mustached face. The mustache shows up in fan-photos, as seen here on hypable; in the same hypable piece is a photo of Benedict with slicked back hair and bowtie. It does look like there will be some Victoriana in there--and I'm dying to know how they're going to work that into their modern-day show!

"Sherlock" and Benedict as Sherlock have been nominated for UK's National Television awards (Hollywood Reporter, NME. The relevant categories are:

Two months ago, I think--according to the (confirmed by publicist) piece in The Guardian, they got engaged Nov. 5. :) Mazel tov to the two of them! Benedict has been very open for years about wanting to have children, which makes this news even happier.

From People magazine: Benedict Cumberbatch Won't Start Wedding Planning Until After Awards Season.

I'm putting this here because I think the top photo might qualify as a spoiler of sorts: Fans gather for second day of Sherlock filming in Bristol. (There are some cell phone photos.)